Speaker Information

William Zellmer, BSPharm, MPH, ScD (Hon)

President

Pharmacy Foresight Consulting

Learning Objectives: 

• Identify at least three essential components of a profession
• Discuss examples of (a) external factors and (b) internal leadership in pharmacy's advancement
• Identify at least three major facets of internal leadership that contributed to pharmacy's advancement since the 1960s
• Contrast the nature of hospital pharmacy practice in the U.S. before the 1960s with its status today
• Discuss lessons from the evolution of hospital/health-system pharmacy that are applicable to the advancement of the profession as a whole

This presentation will cover:

• The relevance of pharmacy history to today’s challenges and opportunities in the profession.
• Long-standing aspirations of pharmacists to enhance their professional status.
• The distinction between (1) external factors and (2) internal leadership as forces for constructive change in pharmacy.
• Key factors in hospital/health-system pharmacy’s advancement in the U.S. since the 1960s.
• Lessons from hospital/health-system pharmacy’s advancement that are applicable to professional practice as a whole.

CreditsAccredited for Pharmacists and Technicians:
1.0 Hour of ACPE Continuing Education